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  • Bill Would Ban Agencies From Automating Decisions

    Commonwealth agencies would be barred from automating any decision that requires judgement, under a bill now before the House of Representatives. They would also have to publish the rules, weightings and test results behind every high risk system.

  • Chatbots Cave Under Repeated False Claims

    Large language models will abandon a correct answer if a user repeats a false statement often enough. Some will flip back and forth on the same claim within a single conversation.

  • Device Maker Rebuilds Supply Chain After Breach

    A cybersecurity incident that stopped a global medical device manufacturer from making or shipping product has ended with operations fully restored. The one clinical workflow it degraded is working again.

  • Canberra Hands Industry Data Classification Scheme

    Australian organisations now have a common vocabulary for describing how sensitive their data is. The same scheme sets out what protection each category warrants, and how that expectation travels when data is shared.

  • AI Systems Are Showing Staff Data They Should Not See

    AI systems inside Australian and New Zealand organisations are surfacing sensitive information to people who are not cleared to see it. The problem is now the second most common category of AI security incident in the region according to a new report.

  • NAB (Un)joins Global Cyber Defence Call

    National Australia Bank has been removed from the signatory list of an OpenAI open letter on cyber defence, two days after it appeared as the only Australian organisation endorsing the document.

Information & Data Manager

Singapore pushes global GenAI testing benchmark

Singapore has put forward a proposed international standard, ISO/IEC 42119-8, that would set standardised testing approaches for generative AI systems, including benchmarking and red teaming methodologies.

Glasswing ANZ Shut Out, But OpenAI Opens a Door

No Australian or New Zealand organisation features among the roughly 50 partners granted access to Project Glasswing, Anthropic's landmark AI-driven cybersecurity initiative. Now a rival model from OpenAI has entered the field, with a broader access pathway that may offer ANZ security professionals a more realistic route to frontier AI defensive tooling.

NZ Council seeks M365 Records Overhaul

Christchurch City Council has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking vendors to deliver a Microsoft 365-based Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to replace its existing on-premise TRIM platform.

Cyber Trust Deficit Raises Incident Risk: Report

A global survey of 5,000 IT and security leaders has found that just 5% say both they and their organisation have full trust in their cybersecurity vendors - raising serious questions for CISOs, risk managers and boards about how they evaluate and manage vendor relationships.

Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert

New, more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models are announced pretty regularly these days: the latest version of ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini always has new features and new capabilities that its makers are eager for customers to try out. But now Anthropic has announced a new model with great fanfare, but is only giving access to a select handful of users. In what the New York Times calls a “terrifying warning sign” of the model’s power, the company has instead started an initiative called Project Glasswing to use the model for good instead of evil.

Ungoverned AI a Growing Compliance Risk

When AI agents start taking actions rather than merely answering questions, the integrity of their knowledge source becomes a compliance problem. Knowledge management vendor eGain has released a set of platform connectors designed to anchor Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini CLI, and the Cursor developer environment to a single governed knowledge repository.